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Subscribe to RSSBOSTON -- Mitt Romney will embark on a five-day, six-state bus tour beginning on Friday in the first major series of campaign events of the general election, his campaign announced this morning.
After weeks of a campaign defined primarily by fundraising and televised back-and-forth exchanges launched by surrogates, the bus tour marks the first true foray of either candidate into traditional general election-style barnstorming of swing states.
The bus tour, entitled "Believe in America: Every Town Counts" will begin this Friday with an event at New Hampshire's Scamman Farm, where Romney first announced his candidacy last June.
From there, the bus tour will make several stops per day in small towns across the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa, before concluding in Romney's native state of Michigan next Tuesday.
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The wheels on Willard's bus go round & round...
Round & round...
Big Deal!
Let America, get a good look at the plastic $57K per day man!
Willard is out of touch & out of gas...
So, FR, tell us more about the bus. Is this the one like President Obama uses, that the TeaPeople railed against......?
Why, I do believe you are correct!
Two buses were ordered at the time.
It was then revealed whoever the GNOP nominee was would have access to the other...
Heck, Feisty, he's got the Secret Service so .......why not the bus!
Willard, the 57K a day man!
Will this be like Palin's "bus tour"? Flying from one location to another to catch up with the bus?
The $57k per day will help while Romney is visiting all 57 states.
Thank heavens we're not a battleground state. Could not STAND to have that hypocritical liar here! Let's see, what 5 Star hotels do you think the Romney's will be staying in while doing their bus tour?
What a joke!
Obama/Biden 2012
Willard is a joke. That bus tour should be named "Willard's Traveling Circus".
Is Mitt going to give a better peformance and not get booed like he usually gets booed?
BOO-HOO- HOO- BOO
Obama/ Biden 2012
He should stage a photo op at one of the companies he shuttered while at Bain.....
Picture that one, to support his free market stance.......
I hope he gets a flat tire.
Fisty
Mr Romney was the only honest politician in the state of Ma when he was governor. Three speakers of the house in a row have been convicted by the feds of felonies! Learn the facts or stfu.
Chilled, you beat me to it up here.
On the bus tour, Mitt the MisFitt is to deliver public service, volunterring as a barber, esp. for gays, to count the negative image of GOP as intolerant
Willard should be proud of his Bain work so I would think......It can't be said/shown enough Jody! lol
CitizenBain,
You have the BEST name. Congrats!
I'm lmao thinking about Anne traveling in a bus!!! Can you imagine her complaining every day????
Mitt the MisFitt uses the bus tour to find more businesses to consolidate, more profit to make, more hard-working employees to fire, and blame it on Obama for such job losses.
Romney said in Iowa. “...It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.”
Rightwingers, read carefully and think it through. I'll get out Glenn Beck's chalkboard if you want help figuring out what's wrong, very wrong, with this statement.
Romney – Obama didn’t clean up our mess fast enough. Let the private sector run its course and hit the bottom. Let the states go bankrupt.
Romney -- He's not in it for you.
Obama's bus got lost looking for that 57th state.
The difference between this bus tour and the one Obama took a few months ago?
The taxpayers are not footing the bill for this bus tour.
The Obama campaign follows all the rules, as have previous Presidents.
ZERO taxpayer money is used.
No Jo go just into Boston harbor on that comment, as much as you hate the guy, he follows the rules just as Bush, Bush, clinton, reagan.
and when you jump in you may want to issue a flood warning for the shore line in Boston beause after you jump in, the run off may flood the city.
You either have a short, or a selective, memory.
Obama embarked on a bus tour at TAXPAYER expense- because he declared his campaign stops "not campaign stops".
Please. Nobody bought it from him, and they sure as heck are not going to buy it from you.
no joe - you always tell lies, why do you bother? Everyone on this site knows the truth. President Obama has done nothing every other President hasn't done so get over it and try to keep up! I realize if you can't lie you've got nothing to say but - oh wait - that would be a good thing!
Obama/Biden 2012
You all should have heard No Joe's outrage when George Bush landed on that aircraft carrier with the huge banner "Mission Accomplished" during an election campaign. Oh wait.......there was no outrage from No Joe about that.....only when President Obama does things that every other President has done is there outrage from No Joe.
Romney just says whatever, depending on the weather and is King of 'selective memory'.
Don't think he wouldn't miss the chance to make something up about campaign monies, if there was anything to say.
no joe, no bo, nj
Obama embarked on a bus tour at TAXPAYER expense- because he declared his campaign stops "not campaign stops"
No Hoe all Blow
That so-called TAXPAYER expense bus rolling through that you' re repeating was not campaigning. It was right wing proproganda.
You do know the buses are available to th republican nominee during the 2012 election, as well as future presidents?
Can you at least think outside your box?
edit: Should be No Joe, All blow
Repeating Lies, does not require thinking Bev!........Just repeat the Lies and talking pionts! Pre-programmed!
\We also need to blowback against this myth that when the unemployment numbers drop a bit that is because some people just stop looking for work. What? Who ever could just stop looking for work unless you are rich and have all your bills paid. This is another spin by the Republicans. When they say it challenge them. It is just another way to discredit Obama
Romneyismynightmare
We also need to blowback against this myth that when the unemployment numbers drop a bit that is because some people just stop looking for work.
Also, we need to define other factors:
A lot depends on who you choose to include (or exclude) from the labor force you’re using as a base. Should students be in or out? How about retirees working part-time but not currently employed? Furloughed auto workers? Illegal immigrants? In the end, the reason for including or excluding various categories of workers has more to do with improving the sensitivity of the survey as an economic barometer than it does with adhering to a definition of employment that you or I might find more accurate.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15768195/ns/business-answer_desk/t/who-does-government-count-employed/
chilled
Repeating Lies, does not require thinking Bev!........Just repeat the Lies and talking pionts! Pre-programmed!
Yup, for sure No joe is a progrmmed little byte. She can't think until at all; LOL . She is an essential part of their Hard Drive.
Poor Lady she's trapped in.
Romneyismynightmare - When people drop off the unemployment benifits rolls they are no longer counted in the unemployment numbers. This is reflected in the number of people that have jobs as compare to the number of people that HAD jobs. This means when they say there are 23 million less people working than when Pres. Obama took office and that this is the highest percentage of unemployed since the great depresion they mean they are not reflected in the 8.2 percent unemployed numbers. They should be but that isn't how the number is calculated. The real number should be about 12 percent. Don't take my word for it check it out.
Sn00kie Nojo lying again?
Huh.
Really.
Taxpayers are covering the cost of Secret Service.....just sayin'......
This bus tour will force him to speak to people one on one. You know what happens when he has to do that. Gaff after Gaff. This should be fun to watch.
Obama/Biden 2012
Yet somehow I doubt Romney will say the "private sector economy is doing just fine". That is now the gold standard of gaffes. Even Joe Biden will have trouble beating that stupidity.
"Corporations are people too!"
Oh, yeah, Romney is hilarious on the road. I wish I could follow him, like my nephew used to follow Phish.
No GT Romney won't have to talk to people one on one. His staff will keep him insulated from the public. It's sad so many voters support a candidate that won't even talk to them. But then again Romney's told so many lies it wouldn't be hard to trip him up. His only hope is hoping the media doesn't notice he's hiding.
Bob in VA - no Romney will ask who baked the cookies! He's too stupid to talk to people one on one. His handlers know he's not able to answer questions and will treat him as such. He'll go off prepared scripts and even then he'll make his usual condescending blunders. The man isn't capable of a coherent thought.
Obama/Biden 2012
Seeking Sanity,
One thing Romney will not talk about for sure is the trees.
He already said Michigan has the best trees, they are all the same size.
Last week he went off script and was so excited to have met a guy who was 7 ft tall. He announced that"this guy really is 7 ft tall and he does not play basketball."WOW
Romney, enjoy your road trip....
SeekingSanity
Bob in VA - no Romney will ask who baked the cookies! He's too stupid to talk to people one on one.
Speaking of cookies...
(VIDEO) Mitt Romney has no idea what a "Chocolate Donut" is
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/10/1098994/--VIDEO-Mitt-Romney-has-no-idea-what-a-Chocolate-Donut-is
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SMDH this man is so out of touch.
Obama/Biden 2012
Even if it was, he wouldn't say that now would he, Bob? But Mitt did say he doesn't worry about poor people and that everyone should live like the Papa John's tycoon. That says miles about how in touch with reality he is. I can't believe anyone would take this buffoon seriously.
Yet somehow I doubt Romney will say the "private sector economy is doing just fine". That is now the gold standard of gaffes. Even Joe Biden will have trouble beating that stupidity.
V-Bob,
Hold on tight to it tightly, its the only one you got. Even though it was cut out of the whole statement...
You know, you repubs think this is important and has legs. But most of us independants agree with what he said when you look at the whole statement. I know you were wishing for something like McCains campiagn killing gaffe from 08 but this just doesn't resonate with the avg. person like that one did.
Have you ever voted for a Republican?
Romneyismynightmare, you said it and thank you for saying it.
This is what drives me nuts, Romney (or whoever) taking a small segment out of context with the rest of the statement and the MEDIA running with the out of context spin from the opposition.
There is a huge difference between what President Obama said and what Candidate McCain said. McCain's comment came as Lehman disappeared and the rest of Wall Street tettered on the edge of disappearing. President Obama's words were after 27 months of private sector job growth. That private sector job growth would have been even better had it not been for austerity at the state and local levels which was forced by D.C. Congressional Republicans refusal to do as both parties always did before--infuse federal money into the states to stop the bleeding of public sector jobs during an economic crisis.
Ignored in all of the GOP and press "gotcha" chatter, George W. Bush added more public sector government jobs than he did private sector jobs....just as did Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
CitizenBain--I USED to be a republican, so I didn't just vote for them, I was one. That is until Ronald Reagan came along and made a mockery of conservatism.
CitizenBain - I have actually voted for a Republican. See, I look at who is best for the job - not who the party (whichever party it is) TELLS me is good for me. It's actually about looking at plans, programs, beliefs. And, the GOP today has no plans, no programs, no beliefs - just lies. So, I have voted Republican in the past but don't see doing so again for a long, long, time. The GOP has lost it's way - has no conscience, no integrity. Why would anyone vote GOP?
Obama/Biden 2012
CitizenBain
Have you ever voted for a Republican?
No Cant', mother and father are not brother & sister.
Once. He resigned in disgrace. I'll let you figure out who it was.
While Romney is on a bus tour , the Obama campaign will continue on its 'incredibly stupid gaffe that the private sector economy is doing fine' damage control tour...
Do you think he will take the dog along?
When he is in all those small towns, he can remind them how much he enjoys firing people. That should get them to vote for him.
dottielou - He can also bitch about their cookies......
Romney can also argue with them that corporation are people too.
Romney needs corporations to be people because those are the "people" that will vote for him
I am self employed and will be voting for him!
I am partially self employed and I will not be voting for him. I don't have a single customer from China. I depend on production facilities expanding and renovating in the US, not being dismantled and shipped overseas.
[He can also bitch about their cookies......]
Or that the "trees aren't the right height"...
R.I.P. Seamus... :(((
Rhombus - basically a square that can lean in any direction.
I love it!
Romney bus - a square that can take all four sides on any issue.
Hi I'm Mitt Romney and I make Euclidean geometry fun!
Good one, Forrest Grump!!
If Jindal is Romney's Veep pick, during the VP debates, will Joe Biden try to warm up to Jindal by saying "You know in my State of Delaware, you can't go into a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts if you don't have a slight Indian accent...I'm not kidding"? Youtube it. It's awesome.
Will Jindal say, "can I call you Joe?" because he can't refrain from saying "O'Biden"? BTW, there is nothing wrong with VP Biden's comment because it is the truth and it also speaks about the American dream of coming to this country, working hard and owning a business.
No, but he should immediately ask him to produce his birth certificate. Romney too!
I hope someone asks Romney about global warming. This is a headline that greeted us in Maine this morning:
Maine study finds potentially disastrous threat to single-celled plants that support all life
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/06/10/environment/study-finds-potentially-disastrous-threat-to-single-celled-plants-that-support-all-life-on-earth/
Did you know the the Himalayan Glaciers will all be melted by 2035? That was the finding of a study too. Should we believe ALL that we are told by the "Scientists" who have a liberal agenda."
Don't tell me that I'm ignorant because I don't believe in "Claimant Change". I do believe in claimant change. It has been getting warmer since the 1850's with a few periods of cooling. Thank GOD it's getting warmer, things grow better when it's warm. Hopefully, someday soon, we won't be needing any hockey sticks.
The real Global Warming headline:
"Enviromental scientist finds risk to human existence, unless he gets millions more in grants"
Note to Bob (the misinformed) in Virginia. Many of the scientists that support climate change and the adverse effects it will have on the planet, are not Americans. Most European and Japanese scientists agree with those results. China, India, Brazil and the Teapublicans turn a blind eye and really don't care if they ruin the planet. As long as there's a profit to be made, f==k the people. But keep your mind closed and when it's too late, don't cry that you weren't warned.
robme will be on the short bus :)
wearing a helmut for his protection
Chris, Dorr - the helmut - too late for that!
Mitt the UnFit!
The helmet is to protect the public from Romney's lies. But then again, the audiences he'll be lying to eat up his lies.
Chilled no one lies more smoothly than the smooth operator from chicago er hawaii uh kenya oh wherever hes from he is an incredibly polished liar!
Compulsive Liar
chilled - He's a classic used car salesman.
the smooth operator from chicago er hawaii uh kenya
ssmike - It was the teabaggers that labeled where he came from, not him. He' always maintained that he was from Hawaii.
GT - Your logo is as insane as your posts...When's the last time you saw a donkey FVCK an elephant? Answer NEVER. However, it is not beyond the realm of possibility to imagine an elephant stepping on a donkey and squishing the lying sh!t out him....
Uh oh, it's past 10am on the east coast or early morning as most of the posters here put it :) Good luck seeing any balance between parties now.
Its quite the trend on here. Mostly the left during the day, and then mostly the right in the evening after people get home from work.
GermanGem - actually it's both all day. Many of us can multi-task so we post off and on through the day. I turn it all off when I go home. Too many other things to do!
ok SS, I will tell my nephrologist sister that in between seeing patients and making rounds at the hospital she should hop onto MSNBC to have a political discussion.
GermanGem - your implication was that the "left" don't work but the right do so they post when they get home. Of course intelligent people will know that many professionals don't have the opportunity to post during the day (my Democratic doctor for instance or my Democratic lawyer friends) but many professions allow us to go back and forth during the day. My evenings are filled with activities so I "turn off" at night - as most of my friends do. See how that works?
Maybe most lefties are in the furthest east cities. It seems like 6-7 east coast states plus California against the rest of America. California is pissed at Obama so they are sitting on their hands.
ss, correct english is , "the 'left' DOESN'T work". Hope you're not a teacher. Spare me your claim of recognizing intelligence. You are way too combative and narrow minded to look at anything objectively.
GermanGem - That last comment certainly didn't make you look too nice. Seeking Sanity really didn't say anything mean to you and correcting someone else's spelling or grammar just shows you have bad manners. I expect more from someone who smokes pot occasionally and lives in Pennsylvania.
Would this be the second bus purchased by the US Government that the GOP threw a hissy fit over last summer when President Obama used one to visit smaller, rural areas?
It used to be that campaigns launched after the conventions in August. This is mid-June. Obama is stuck having to fund raise, while Romney can now spend. The Dems need to be very, very careful. This is the kind of trip that can put swing states very much in play and force Obama to spend all the resources there. Remember, Walker already saturated Wisc. Romney saturated Ohio and Michigan during the primaries. The US Chamber is saturating Ohio with anti Sen. Brown ads that have tightened up that race. This can easily become the tipping point, the mirror opposite of '96 when Clinton got the early advantage of Dole by being able to outspend him in the summer. Romney is in effect forcing Obama to campaign and fund raise, opening him up to the attacks that he's not being president.
People of New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Ohio and Wisconsin, when you listen to the rhetoric of Romney remember when he was on stage with the other nominees and how he took no action or intervened when a US soldier in Afghanistan asked the nominees in Florida about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the crowd booed. Romney has also said he would not sign "The Dream Act" if passed and it came to his desk. Romney openly courted and still courts the confrontational TEA party segment when they say less governmental policies, yet back restricting women's rights to medical policies and policies that makes them second class citizens. And remember how Romney said he "didn't care about the poor?" With the TEA party behind him, he would do away with the Social Programs we have in place with the TEA party in control. This would allow big business to get bigger, make more money and paid less taxes concentrating wealth in fewer and fewer hands while allowing federal funds to be administered by less compassionate more conservative people at the local level. The TEA party has gained numerous local level seats and that's how America has been side-tracked. The private sector is doing fine but, just think of how much better off we would be if the Congress would work with Obama. Instead Obama has has to fight headwinds since he won the right to run and beat McCain. A savvy business person is in the presidency now and he has done a remarkable jobs given he's had headwinds since he won. Look it up, do not believe the FOX-hole. Here's the bottom line, if it will help the president, it won't happen. All of last years millionaires who paid less taxes have yet to come forward with jobs for the people and the millionaire Congress people themselves have not hired us out of this near recession. The president by himself cannot hire us out of this quagmire Bush's tactics drug us down into.
Rudy the racist. You never answer me. Are you still disgusted by asians?
When in the HELL ! has the right wing ever cared about the middle class?
Do you think exlax ETCH-A-SKETCH'S dog will like RIDING ATOP A BUS!! I'll bet if the dog could talk, he'd vote 100% STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC like the 99% American People are going to do!